In this chapter, we learn that the two men defected from school to join the sect, and that they are now fighting each other in a round robin tournament. The first round robin round-robin tournament will be held between the two sects, and the team members who participate in the tournament will have to prepare for the first round of combat. The two men are shocked to find out that the other sect's leader, chen qiu , has been using the same pair of thorns as they have been using to trap them. They wonder how they could have fallen into this trap, and chen wonders how he could have been harmed by chen's "human and weapon fused" . Believing that chen is from the "clear sky clan" , he is surprised to learn that his old friends are now competing against each other.